Esquire is set to release a feature on Dr. Dre after an interview this past summer. Snippets from the interview can be found on their blog where Dre talks about how he’s gone 79 hours of making music with no sleep, how he’s always worked well with Eminem and more. Check out some direct quotes after the jump….

On working for 79 hours…

“I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.”

On working with Eminem…

“The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together. When me and Marshall got in the studio, it instantly clicked. I put the track on, we had a little bit of idle chitchat, I put on the beat, and maybe five seconds in—I swear to God—he goes, “Hi, my name is.” That was it. And it’s still clicking. There’s something about our thing that’s just magical.”

On reincarnation…

“I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I’ve lived quite a few lives. I was at this party and there was this psychic, this little old lady with a flower in her hair. I don’t believe in that stuff. I’m the biggest skeptic. But, hey, it was a party, and I decided to sit down with her. She looked right through me, kind of freaked me out. She did past-life regression. She started telling me things that I really believe. She’s telling me that I’ve been back several times before. She says, “This is the last time you have to come back. You don’t have to come back anymore if you don’t want to.” I was taking it as entertainment. But something inside me was saying, Hmmm.”

–Keith Reid-Cleveland

[Complex]